It's the second last day of Malaysia. Well, mostly at least. Anyway, today's reading, a few verses stood out. Didn't copy the first, but it was just talking about many kinds of service but the we serve the same Lord. In a way, this revolutionizes how one thinks about ministry. Usually, I think that the more spiritual ministry are like the more power ones. Yes, I am flawed in my thinking. I will think that the more spiritual ones like music team or preaching are the ones where the level of service is higher. Like the "qualifications" must be higher. Yes, granted we don't want false teachers and hypocritical worship leaders, but the point here is that there are DIFFERENT kinds of service, but in all the different servings, we serve the same Lord. Yes the preparation is different. A musician should practice beforehand, but an usher doesn't need to, neither should a projectionist spend an hour projecting lyrics at home in worship. But whatever it is I do in service, be it playing the bass, leading prayer, sound, lights or projection, setting up, ushering or clean up, neither should be seen as a bigger post. It shouldn't even be about bigger or smaller, it's about serving, not being in "this" ministry, "that" ministry or "the" ministry.

And this brings me to my main learning point for today, that it makes no difference what part of the body it is, we should give it dignity and honour just as it is. And I think ministry heads can use this to teach their people that there is no lesser ministry, probably just easier tasks, or tasks more suited for different parts. And in the end, it's really about serving the king. The analogy about having a good digestion and hair does work. Would we rather have 10 instruments and 30-man choir, with no soundman? Or just a worship leader and a guitar, who can be heard perfectly in the whole hall. I could go on, but I shan't. And also, there are certain things that we have to protect, like the doctrine, and not let it be open to "comments" like our atmosphere or ushering system.

Anyway, that was just me and my ministry head talking. The part that spoke to me as Kenneth was the one body, many parts. It's not one church, many parts. It's one body. Emmanuel, CHCKL, Paradise Church, Kingdom City Church, Life Assembly, Just to list the churches I've personally been at, it's still on body. But I guess the many parts reminds me of where "home" is. My home body is definitely YA. Lets put it this way, if i were skin from my hand, I would work as a graft onto the leg if needed, but I'd miss all the skin cells from my hand. And my texture and thickness would just take a much longer time to fit in this other part of the same body.

So yeah, glad that we're still one body. And that I get to see them all again soon!

Thank you Lord :)